Joe Seck

 Joe Seck 12/7/2022 Art 240                                      Ernst Haas      The inspiration for my upcoming forty images is Ernst Hass, Hass was a fantastic photographer. In almost every aspect, from his work in color photography to what inspired me, his work using a macro lens. After doing my best and shooting over six hundred photos for this assignment and half of them are blurry messes. I've gained a tremendous amount of respect for those who shoot using a macro lens because it is anything but easy you will see what you think is a fantastic image with perfect lighting, so you go to take it, and you look back, and it is just a little bit blurry. The photos being just a little bit blurry can ruin a macro picture, especially when shooting nature, where clarity and texture make the image.      The images above these are some of my favorite ...

 Joe Seck 11/1/2022 Art 240                                                   Suzanne Opton Suzanne Opton inspired me for this assignment because of her focus on the men and women and the results on their mental state after experiencing the horrors of war and how those can affect your psyche. What she did was take photos of soldiers that have spent time in war and each photo has the name of the amount of time they had spent deployed. She spoke about what she was trying to accomplish with these photos by stating “I hoped to photograph the invisible. I thought that by looking in the face of a young person who had witnessed something unforgettable we might imagine what he had seen or done, or not done.” She wanted to see how war would affect people and if you could see the result by just looking into their eyes. In each one of the phot...

 Joe Seck 10/31/2022 Art 240 Lee Friedlander           I have already covered Friedlander but, I wanted to take another look at his images as I found his style to be very interesting. Looking at the image above this self-portrait was taken with a lightbulb in front of his face and I feel the facial expression he is using is perfect almost as if he is lost in the lightbulb. I then started to think about what is the symbolism of a lightbulb. I thought of the lightbulb being used as an allegory for an idea like a lightbulb pops up in your head when you get an idea, so maybe Friedlander is using the lightbulb to be lost in a thought or lost in an idea, which is super interesting.              Something I have noticed while going through Friedlander's work, especially his self-portraits he uses reflections and shadows very well and makes his images super interesting. In this image, he is using his reflection to take t...

 Joe Seck 10/27/21 Art 240                                                                                         Annie Leibovitz          Annie Leibovitz is an American portrait photographer who has taken portraits of some of the most important people in the world even a portrait of the late Queen of England as seen in the photos below. The lighting she used for this photo is absolutely stunning. I feel like the way she is posed shows a position of power. The image on the top shows the Queen in an empty room with the light just barely hitting her. The way I see the image of the darkness surrounding her speaks to how long she has been around and how she is in the twilight of her life. The two ima...

 Joe Seck 10/18/2022 Toward a Hyperphotography  "Much of digital photography will not be, as it is now, reactive but will try to anticipate and deal with potential issues rather than waiting for them to happen and recording their existence" (P143)     In this quote by McLuhan, I feel he is trying to convey how modern technology and photography are becoming less reactive to situations but more active, this is because of how everyone has a camera on them in the modern-day let it be an iPhone or Google Pixel but all of these are more than capable cameras. So instead of waiting for an event to occur to take a photograph, the cameras are in place to anticipate these issues rather than record.  "The digital environment encourages new strategies and supports them with new efficiencies. For the moment, however, an older more intuitive way of working yields to newer methods that are often still relatively simplistic. An analog photographer in the field, unsure whether th...

 Joe Seck 10/3/2022 Art:240                                                                                   Saul Leiter Saul Leiter was an American  photographer whos work made a significant impact to color photography in the 1930s and 1940s. This can be seen why when looking at his work. His use of color and contrast is some of the best I've seen. Looking at the image above titled Harlem the very loud red of featuring the truck, the man's tie and font on the bar and truck all of these contrasted by the dark shadow on the mans face with a bright white cigarette coming out of his mouth. The image itself is super compelling with large words "HOUSE" and "BAR" really show off the image, and I really enjoy this image.  I n this i...

 Joe Seck 9/12/2022 Art 240                                                                                                                                                 Alex Webb          Alex Webb from what I saw is an expert in street photography with an amazing attention to detail for colors. He has photographed wonderful photos of the street life and culture of New York City, Mexico, Haiti, Cuba, and other countries. In the photo below taken in Tamaulipas Mexico, you see three things that really catch your eye. These being ...